Henri MARTIN (1860 - 1943)

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Henri MARTIN (1860 - 1943)
Allée dans le parc du château de Versailles, circa 1910 Oil on cardboard Signed lower left Annotated "L'automne" on the reverse Oil on cardboard, signed lower left, annotated "L'automne" on the reverse 73,5 x 47,5 cm - 29 x 18 3/4 in. A certificate from Mr Cyrille Martin, dated August 25, 2011, will be given to the purchaser. It indicates by mistake that the painting is painted on canvas. PROVENANCE Sale, Impressionist & Modern Art, Christie's, New York , May 2, 2012, lot 346 "In spring, Henri Martin is particularly sensitive to the unfolding of poplar leaves, but he is also interested in fruit trees in bloom, harbingers of future abundance (The Church and the village of Labastide-du-Vert, exit of mass day of Easter, museum of the Beaux- Arts of Tours) as well as with the lawns whose tender green mixes with the yellow of gold and the pink of the flowers of the fields (The Champs-Elysées, museum of the Beaux-Arts of Bordeaux and museum of Cahors Henri-Martin). In summer, the poppies form like a foam on the grassy waves raised by the scythes. Autumn, the sweet after-season, is not only the time of dead leaves that sting the grass with red (The Bridge of Labastide-du-Vert, the white goat, Cahors Henri-Martin Museum, Landscape, Fine Arts Museum of Lyon) but also that of the fires that raise the hillsides planted with vines (Sketch for The Harvest, Fine Arts Museum of Bordeaux, Vines in Autumn, Cahors Museum Henri-Martin). As for winter, which strips the large branches of the trees, Henri Martin rarely represented it (for example for the Capitole de Toulouse), perhaps because at this time of year, back in his Parisian studio, he was working on the realization of the large decorations, surrounded by the sketches made during his vacations." Sabine Maggiani, "Le poète s'en va dans les champs" : Henri Martin paysagiste", in. Henri Martin (1860 - 1943), Du rêve au quotidien, Peintures conservées dans les collections publiques françaises, cat. expo, Milan : Silvana, 2008, pp. 54-55
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